Nexus : essays in German Jewish studies . Volume 3 / / edited by William Collins Donahue and Martha B. Helfer [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911009389503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Rochester, NY : , : Camden House, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 186 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies ; ; 3
• Disciplina: 430
• Soggetti: Jews, German; Jews - Germany; Germany Civilization Jewish influences Periodicals
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017).
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- “Ein weites Feld”: Ein Wort zu deutsch-jüdischen Studien anläßlich der Verleihung des ersten Egon Schwarz Prize for the Best Essay in German Jewish Studies -- “An Open Field”: A Word about German Jewish Studies on the Occasion of the Presentation of the first Egon Schwarz Prize for the Best Essay in German Jewish Studies -- Laudatio for Abigail Gillman’s Prize-Winning Nexus Essay: “Martin Buber’s Message to Postwar Germany” -- Nexus Forum on Heinrich Heine -- Heinrich Heine in Modern German History, by an Eyewitness -- Jeffrey Sammons, Heine, and Me: Some Autobiographical Reflections -- Heine’s Disparate Legacies: A Response to Jeffrey Sammons -- My Debt to Heine and Sammons -- Nexus Forum on Karl Kraus -- Die letzten Tage der Menschheit as a German-Jewish Tragicomedy, and the Challenge to Translators -- Edward Timms’s “Die letzten Tage der Menschheit as a German-Jewish Tragicomedy and the Challenge to Translators”: A Response -- Kraus the Mouse? Kafka’s Late Reading of Die Fackel and the Vagaries of Literary History -- The Parable of the Rings: Sigmund Freud Reads Lessing -- The Poetics of the Polis: Remarks on the Latency of the Literary in Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Public Space -- The Marrano in Modernity: The Case of Karl Gutzkow -- German Jews Dogged by Destiny: Werewolves and Other Were-Canids in the Works of Heinrich Heine and Curt Siodmak -- Authenticity, Distance, and the ; East German Volksstück: Yiddish in Thomas Christoph Harlan’s Ich Selbst und Kein Engel
• Sommario/riassunto: <I>Nexus</I> is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop, which was inaugurated at Duke University in 2009, and is now held at the University of Notre Dame. Together, <I>Nexus</I> and the Workshop constitute the first ongoing forum in North America for German Jewish Studies. <I>Nexus</I> publishes innovative research in German Jewish Studies, introducing new directions, analyzing the development and definition of the field, and considering its place vis-à-vis both German Studies and Jewish Studies. Additionally, it examines issues of pedagogy and programming at the undergraduate, graduate, and community levels.<BR> <I>Nexus 3</I> features special forum sections on Heinrich Heine and Karl Kraus. Renowned Heine scholar Jeffrey Sammons offers a magisterial critical retrospective on this towering "German Jewish" author, followed by a response from Ritchie Robertson, while the dean of Kraus scholarship, Edward Timms, reflects on the challenges and rewards oftranslating German Jewish dialect into English. Paul Reitter provides a thoughtful response.<BR><BR> Contributors: Angela Botelho, Jay Geller, Abigail Gillman, Jeffrey A. Grossman, Leo Lensing, Georg Mein, Paul Reitter, Ritchie Robertson, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Egon Schwarz, Edward Timms, Liliane Weissberg, Emma Woelk.<BR><BR> William Collins Donahue is the John J. Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame, where he chairs the Department of German and Russian. Martha B. Helfer is Professor of German and an affiliate member of the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.<BR><BR>

City of health, fields of disease : revolutions in the poetry, medicine, and philosophy of romanticism / / Martin Wallen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910974689003321
• Autore: Wallen Martin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-138-27762-2; 1-315-26019-0; 1-351-95131-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Nineteenth century series
• Disciplina: 820.93561
• Soggetti: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Diseases in literature; Literature and medicine - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Medicine - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Romanticism - England; Health in literature; Medicine in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Lyrical health in Wordsworth and Coleridge -- 2. Coleridge's scrofulous dejection -- 3. The medical frame of character and the enforcement of normative health in Thomas Beddoes' 'Observations on the character and writings of John Brown, M.D.' -- 4. A secret excitement : Coleridge, John Brown, and the chance for a physical imagination -- 5. Schelling's medical singing school in the Yearbooks of medicine as science -- 6. The electromagnetic orgasm and history outside the city.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Romantic Era witnessed a series of conflicts concerning definitions of health and disease. In this book, Martin Wallen discusses those conflicts and the cultural values that drove them. The six chapters progress from the mainstream rejuvenation of the Socratic values by Wordsworth and Coleridge to the radical alternatives offered by the Scottish theorist, John Brown, and the speculative German philosopher, ; F. W. J. Schelling. Wallen shows how actual definitions of health and disease changed at the turn of the nineteenth century, and provides an analysis of the metaphorical uses to which romantic thinkers put these different definitions in their attempts to value or devalue competing concepts of individuality, poetic expression, and history.AKey to the redefinition of these concepts was the use of the rhetoric of medicine to add value to those statements considered desirable and to undermine those targeted for elimination from public discourse. By juxtaposing the well-known critical works of Wordsworth and Coleridge with lesser-known works such as Schelling's Yearbooks of Medicine and Thomas Beddoes' medical treatises, Wallen illuminates the central role medicine played in redefining the human being's relationship to society and nature - part of the cultural revolution that began in the nineteenth century."